Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

AMENDMENTSTO BE MOVEDON REPORT[Supplementary to the Third Marshalled List]

Before Clause 60

BARONESS LINKLATER OF BUTTERSTONE

LORD BEECHAM

LORD RAMSBOTHAM

151A*

Insert the following new Clause—

“Awareness of sentencing options

(1) The Lord Chancellor shall, by regulation, promote arrangements to ensure that each Probation Trust provides adequate information about community sentencing provision to all magistrates in the area for which it has responsibility.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may provide—

(a) guidelines for liaison between magistrates and Probation Trusts;

(b) a reimbursement scheme for magistrates expenses under paragraph (a); and